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by rsynnott 1296 days ago
I wonder if this response is because common Linux desktop environments are _so_ derivative of Windows these days. I started using MacOS around 2004 (the G4 iBook was _amazing_ in its day; if you wanted a Unix-y laptop with decent battery life, working power management and wifi, and vaguely affordable, it was the only game in town), having previously been using Linux since about 2001 and Windows before that. At that time, Linux desktop environments generally didn't use the same conventions as Windows anyway, so moving to MacOS wasn't that jarring.